Index

An italic figure indicates an illustration

American Chap-Book (ATF), 124,129
American Type Founders Co., New

Jersey, 124,130,135,136,137,138,

141, 143,146, 155,163
Antique:

name for slab-serif, Si
and for sans-serif, 84
'antique' printing, 124
Arabic composition, 64, 67, 168
Arrighi, Ludovico degli (Vicentino),

120
ascenders, 13, 50, 116,117, 161, 163
Ashendene Press, London, 149
Auriol, Georges, 157

Barnhart Bros. & Spindler, Chicago,

baseline: function in electronic systems,

49
Baskerville, John, 35
Bauer foundry, Frankfurt, 200
Bauhaus, 91, 96,158
Bayer, Herbert, 46
Baynard Press, 90
Beauclair, Gotthard de, 155
Beaumarchais, P. A. Carón de, 68
Behrens, Peter, 91, 157,158
Beispiele Künstlerischer Schrift, 157
Bennett, Paul, 121, 178, 181
Benton, Linn Boyd:

his self-spacing types, 36, 62
pantographic machine, 36
Benton, Morris Fuller, 138, 143, 146,

190
Benton, Waldo Foundry, Milwaukee,

35.61
Bernhard, Lucían, 63, 108, 128
Bigelow, Charles, 46,199
Binney & Ronaldson, foundry,

Philadelphia, 141
Blumenthal, Joseph, 175
Bradley, Will, 123,124,128
Bremer Presse, Munich, 106
Bridges, Robert:

his phonotypes, 144
Bruce foundry, New York, 68
Bullen, Henry L.:

mis-names Benton's machine, 36

on origin of Kennerley, 134,136
Burke, Jackson, 193

Callingham, James, 85
Cambridge University Press, 194
Carter, Harry:

on character spacing, 71

on the Van Dijck type, 71

opinion of C. van Dijck, 107

on Kabel, 172
Caslon, William, 35
Caslon, William II, 68
Caslon, William IV, 85

Casions Circular, 18, 23

Chap-Book, The, 123

Chappell, Warren, 69,155, 168

Claesz, Hendrik, 115

classification of type styles, 19, 20, 21

Claudin, Anatole, 143

Cleland, T. M., 143

Coggeshall, Howard, 128

computer-aided design, 46

Cooper, Oswald, 132

counter, 33

counter-punch, 33

Cranach Press, Weimar, 87

cursive, 61

Curwen Press, London, 103, 161

Daily Herald, London, 194
Deberny & Peignot, Paris, 140
descenders, 13, 48, 49,116,137
Dickinson foundry, Boston, 124
Didot, Firmin, 20, 23, 35, 56, 57, 59,

188
Didot, François-Ambroise, 22
Didot, Pierre, 23;

his letter g, ¡9
digitising:

purpose and methods, 43, 44, 43-
Dijck, Christoffel van, 107
Dodge, Philip, 36
Dreyfus, John, 38, 144
Dürer, Albrecht, 169
Dwiggins, W. A.:

on character spacing, 72

on sans-serif, 176

on Electra, 178

on Ionic, 182

on ascenders, descenders, 190

Eckman, James, 200

Eckmann, Otto, 157

egyptian, 80, 81

electronic typesetting systems, 43

Elstob Saxon type, 144

Elzevir: French term for old style, 20

Encyclopedia Britannica, 204

Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, ioi, 167

Erbar, Jakob, 92, 169

Expressionism, 158

fat face, 27,28, 80, 81

Fell types, 135

Field & Tuer, London, 124

Figgins, Vincent, 80, 86

fitting, 71, 72

Fleischman, J. M., 106

Fournier, Pierre Simon, 22, 23, 59

fractions, 70

Fraktur, 15

Friedlander, Henry, 155

Fugger, Wolfgang, 169

Garnett, Porter, 103

Genzsch & Heyse, Hamburg, 156

Gii, Geronimo, 186

Gill, Eric:

on spacing, 65

his Solus type, 82

his sans-serif, 90, 91, 171

his Greek, 113
Golden Eagle Press, 182, 191
Goodhue, Bertram, 51,130
Goudy, Bertha, 125,141,149
Goudy, Frederic-
explains his use of work by others,
121

publications, 126,127

adviser to Lanston Monotype, 126

learns type founding, 126

awards, 127

interest in phonetic characters,
144
Grabhorn Press, 103,144
Grandjean, Phillipe, 58, 59
Granjon, Robert:

his Civilité, 34

Greek, 34

italic, 120
Gray, Nicolete,85
Greek types:

Granjon's, 34

Antigone, 105, 106

Romulus Greek, 112, 113
Griffith, Chauncey H.:

on Janson, 39

on proportions of Falcon, 53

colleague of Dwiggins, 178

on 267D,183

opinion of Plantin, 183

on Falcon, 186
Gropius, Walter, 158
Guggenhiem, Siegfried, 168

Haas foundry, Basle, 98
Hammer, Victor, 191
Handover, Phyllis M., 85, 89,198
Handy, John, 35
Hansard, T. C:

on type sizes, 23

on the Italian face, 27

on lining figures, 68

on slab-serif, 81
Hartz, Sem, 56
Hasler, Charles, 83
Hawks, Nelson, 24
Heckel, Erich, 158
Hegner, Jakob, 167
Hoffmann, Josef, 97
humanist:

old style, 20

sans-serif, 21
Hupp, Otto, 156
Hutt, Allen, 202

Ibn Muqlah:

stroke weight formula, 89
Ikarus system, 66
Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 143
Index characterum Architypographiae

Plantinianae, 196,199
Insel, Die, 154

Johnson, A. F.:

on first secondary type, 61

on origin of sans-serif, 85
Johnson, Herbert, 146
Johnston, Edward:

italic for Cranach Press, 87

sans-serif, 88

stroke weight formula, 89
Jones, George W.:

the non-kerning f, 40

rejected standard alignment, 49

commissioned Goudy, 127, 146
Journal für Buchdruckerkunst, 81
Jugend, 153,154

Kandinsky, Wassily, 158

Keere, Hendrik van den, 199, 200

Kennerley, Mitchell, 125, 135

kern,16

kerning, 79

Keystone foundry, Philadelphia, 132

Kimball, Ingalls, 51

Kis, Nicolas: 'Janson' face, 35

Klee, Paul, 158

Klingspor, Karl, 161, 164,169

Klingspor foundry, Offenbach, 153,

154,159, 161,164, 169, 172
Knopf, Alfred, 175, 188
Koch, Rudolf:

lettering, 154

his letter g, 156

on Neuland, 165

his gothics, i}9

Das Zeichenbuch, 162

on geometric designing, 168
Kokoschka, Oskar, 164
Kredel, Fritz, 155,161, 168
Krimpen, Jan van:

accepts sloped roman principle, 64

plans a type family, 108

on Lutetia, 109

on Romanee italic, 117

relationship with punch-cutter, 118
Kühl, Gustav, 157

Laboratory Press, Pittsburg, 103
Lakeside Press, 175
Lanston Monotype Co., U.S., 38,126,
132,133,136,141,143,144, 146,148,

149. 15z
Lardent, Victor, 196, 198, 200, 206

Larisch, Rudolf von, 157
Larsen, Nils, 178
legibility, 31
'legibility group', 182
Lerner, Abe, 145
letter-spacing:

instead of italic, 61

of capitals, 79, 80
ligatures:

in Lutetia, 99

in Spectrum, 116
Limited Editions Club, 101, 161,175
Linotype & Machinery Ltd, U.K., 37,

38, 40, 143, 146, 148, 203
Lissitzky, El, 96

Mackeller, Smith & Jordan,
Philadelphia, 24
Mackintosh, С R., 97. 47
Malin, Charles, 35, 68
Marder, Luce foundry, Chicago, 23,

124
Mardersteig, Giovanni, 118, 119
Martin, William, 180
Mason, John, H., 198
matrix, 33;

engraving of, 35, 36
Mergenthaler Linotype Co., U.S., 37,
176, 177,178,180, 182, 185,192, 194
Merrymount Press, Boston, 103
Meynell, Sir Francis, 50, 127, 164, 182
Meynell, Gerard, 198
modern face, 19, 20, 21, 194
modernised old style, 20
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, 158
Monotype Corporation Ltd U.K., 38,
40, 41,105, 115, M8- lé4> J94> I98,
199, 202, 206
Morison, Stanley:
on sloped roman, 61
the Solus type, 82
on sans-serifs, 95
on Lutetia roman, 102, italic, 119
on Neuland, 164
on Ionic, 182, 194
on Times Roman: its origin, 195,

196, its merit, 210
definition of typography, 214
Mosley, James, 85
Mucha, Alphons, 157

Nash, John Henry, 134
Neudorffer, Johann, 169
Nicholson, Sir William, 132
numerals:

'Arabic', 67

Roman, 67

old style, 68

lining, 68

width of, 69

spacing of, 75

in Spectrum, 116

old face, 19, 20

old style, 19, 20

Ollière foundry, Paris, 143

optical compensation, 39;
described, 52
examples of, 39, S3
in mechanical systems, 39
in photo-composition systems, 54

opto-mechanical systems, 42

Pan,154

Parker, Mike, 199

pattern, 37

Peignot, Charles, 167

Phemister, Alexander, 19, 20

phonetic characters, 144

pica:

as basis for point system, 24
Pick, Frank, 90
Pickering, Charles, 90
plagiarism, 122
point line, 48, 49
Pollard, A. F., 140
Prince, Edward, 35, 146
punch-cutters:

three kinds of, 35
punch-cutting, 34;

influence on design, 34

mechanised, 36
punctuations:

spacing of, 75

Raedisch, P. H., 35, 105,114,118

Random House, 175

Ransom, Will, 125

readability, 31

Reiner, Imre, 188

related bold face, 65, 206

Renner, Paul, 57, 93, 169

Ricketts, Charles, 190

Rodenberg, Julius, 153, 159. lili l68

Rogers, Bruce:

on quality of Montaigne, 38

on standard alignment, 48

on spacing of punctuations, 76

on logotypes, 79

on sans-serif, 86

alters Lutetia, 109

comment on Caslon, 125

on Newstyle, 144, 145
Rollins, С. P., 39
Rooses, Max, 196
Rosart, J. F., 106, 188
Rudhard foundry (Klingspor)

Offenbach, 154,156
Ruzicka, Rudolph:

advised by Dwiggins, 72, 192

on Electra, 178

on Dwiggins's method, 193

Sancha, Antonio de, 186
Savage, William, 23
Schiller, Georg, 156
Schmidt-Rottluf, Karl, 158
Schriftguss foundry, Dresden, 167
serif:

length of, 60

shape of, 60

in slab-serif, 82
Shanks, foundry, London, 199
Simon, Oliver, 103
Simons, Anna, 92
sizes:

equivalent, 25
sloped roman, 62, 63, 65,109, 180
Smith, Harry, 39, 40
Sniffen, Willard, 163
Southward, John, 19
standard alignment:

derived from point system, 48

adopted by Linotype, 49

disliked by BR and GWJ, 48, 49
Steltzer, Fritz, 39,198, 199
Stephenson, Blake & Co, Sheffield, 86
Stols, Alexander, 103